Our masterprogramme focuses on researching, reflecting and aiming to develop artistic methods applying them in urban contexts or contexts underlying developments of urbanization. The crucial question would be: Does it rely now more than ever on the arts or artistic methods to create prospects, to freely counter-act strong tendencies and realities when parts of our societies discount their future, explode in resignation?
Dimitrije Andrijević
Café Namsa is a social business that functions as a bridge to the labourmarket for refugees.
A project dealing with the phenomenon of fear in politics, minds, cities and public spaces.
Fear of Life. The City as a Habitat to All dealt with fear in society, art and design.
Using the medium radio as a tool to communicate with and avoid the victimisation of refugees.
Adressing conflictual situations by using strategies of dancing and movement.
A project dealing with the effects of bureaucratic lunacy on individual lives.
In dem handgezeichneten Stopmotion-Film erzählen Migranten über ihre Ankunft in Wien.
Two series developed in the context of the "Green Light" project by Olafur Eliasson at TBA21.
A collaborative project creating spaces for and with refugees.
Using the sensation of taste to relate to the issues of belonging, home and identity.
An installation adressing the reciprocal effects of child poverty and deficient education.
"Das Bienvenue: ein Recht auf Raum für alle" investigates possibilities of arriving and staying.
Adressing the problematic nature of binary identity politics through encounter in public space.
Fear respectively the creation of anxieties has become a much too powerful instrument of political persuasion. Solidaric processes are undermined if not destroyed, future is discounted: if circumstances do obviously not improve at least they should not get worse anymore.
How do notions of innovation come into play in an atmosphere of re-bordering Europe?
How could artists, architects, urbanists, how should intellectuals act now? And from where? Should they change the contexts of their work? Should they start to focus already on much younger generations? Or should they establish safe spaces inside institutions?
Big questions and maybe the answers could be found in distinct if not even pungent words, in highly precise and detailed actions, in repeated societal acupunctures in both virtual and analogue spaces?